Jay Leno is recovering!
While hosting the inaugural amfAR Las Vegas benefit event on Friday, Nov. 22, the comedian, 74, said he was doing well after recently falling down a hill in Pennsylvania, severely injuring his face and body and breaking his wrist.
“I feel good,” Leno told reporters from the red carpet, adding, “I have a broken wrist, but I’m fine.”
Former Tonight’s show The host appeared to cover bruises on his face with make-up at the Wynn Las Vegas event, which honored Sylvester Stallone and his wife Jennifer Flavin Stallone.
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Jay Leno in Las Vegas on November 22.
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Jay Leno says he fell down a hill and ‘hit his head on a rock’ and is now wearing an eye patch due to his injury
Leno spoke to TMZ earlier this week and revealed that he fell while trying to walk to a nearby restaurant at the bottom of his hotel, which Inside Edition reports is a Hampton Inn about 30 miles outside of Pittsburgh.
“To get to [the restaurant]I didn’t have a car, so you had to walk about a kilometer and a half around. I said, ‘Well, the hill doesn’t look that steep. It is about 60-70 feet. To see if I could go downhill, I fell,” he told the newspaper.
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“Boom, boom, boom. I rolled down the hill, hit my head on a rock, hit me in the eye,” Leno added of the incident.
The star performed at the Palace Theater in Greenhouse, Penn., on Friday, Nov. 15. He later performed at the Yaamava’ Theater in Highland, California on Saturday, November 16.
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Jay Leno in Las Vegas on November 22.
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Jay Leno walked out of Los Angeles with a bruised face and a broken wrist after falling 60 feet. Down the hill
While hosting the event in Las Vegas, Leno didn’t mention his appearance or fall, instead sticking to the script and trying to raise money for AIDS research.
Mingling with the crowd — which consisted of high-profile consumers and celebrities including Michael Fassbender, Jodie Turner-Smith, Tommy Hilfiger and more — Leno helped auction off the cars and even sold tours of his famous garage for $75,000 to two different bidders. “I can go there for free,” he teased.
Elsewhere, the Stallones were honored with amfAR’s Inspiration Award “in recognition of their generous support of amfAR’s life-saving work, among many other causes related to health, education and women’s rights,” according to a press release.
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